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something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed
the once-ubiquitous typewriter was the predecessor of today's electronic keyboard
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The alien symbiote trilogy, led by Tom Hardy, has proven itself critic-proof and commercially successful, although the third and final movie didn’t live up to the box off heights of its predecessors.
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Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
This figure surpasses deportations under both Obama's predecessors and successors, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Migration Policy Institute data reviewed by Newsweek.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The Rise and Fall of YA TV During its heyday, the CW (and its predecessors, the WB and UPN) was the unequivocal home for young adult television that included faves like One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and more.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
Even if these models’ capacities prove not much greater than their predecessors’, the stakes for OpenAI are.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Yoon’s five predecessors dating 20 years all pledged to raise the nation’s economic game.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, carpenters hewed oak beams by hand to rebuild the roof and spire, just like their medieval predecessors did.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
But as the first official installment in the new interconnected DC universe overseen by Gunn and Peter Safran, Creature Commandos will also establish a different tone than those anarchic predecessors.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
This generation of Ford GT has followed its predecessors and appreciated quite significantly already.
—Trinity Francis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
This figure surpasses deportations under both Obama's predecessors and successors, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Migration Policy Institute data reviewed by Newsweek.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The Rise and Fall of YA TV During its heyday, the CW (and its predecessors, the WB and UPN) was the unequivocal home for young adult television that included faves like One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, and more.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024
Even if these models’ capacities prove not much greater than their predecessors’, the stakes for OpenAI are.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Yoon’s five predecessors dating 20 years all pledged to raise the nation’s economic game.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, carpenters hewed oak beams by hand to rebuild the roof and spire, just like their medieval predecessors did.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
But as the first official installment in the new interconnected DC universe overseen by Gunn and Peter Safran, Creature Commandos will also establish a different tone than those anarchic predecessors.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
This generation of Ford GT has followed its predecessors and appreciated quite significantly already.
—Trinity Francis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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